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hendiadys

noun

(linguistics) a figure of speech used for emphasis, where two words joined by and are used to express a single complex idea.

Classical example: nice and warm (instead of nicely warm)

hypallage

noun

A literary device that is the reversal of the syntactic relation of two words, e.g. "her beauty's face" or I can't knock the smirk off his stupid face (because the thing that is referred to being stupid is "him", and not "his face").

hyperbole

noun

(uncountable) extreme exaggeration or overstatement; especially as a literary or rhetorical device.
(uncountable) deliberate exaggeration
(countable) an instance or example of this technique
(countable) (obsolete) a hyperbola

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